{"id":2150,"date":"2026-08-03T03:22:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:22:56","slug":"we-didnt-feel-safe-booking-com-users-face-battle-to-get-money-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2150","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We didn\u2019t feel safe\u2019: Booking.com users face battle to get money back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From melted electric sockets to shabby alternatives, readers tell of dealings with platform when things go wrong<\/p>\n<p>Jane Ripley* spent some time researching the best apartment to stay in for her family\u2019s trip to Batumi in Georgia, eventually settling on one with an \u201cexceptional\u201d rating on Booking.com.<\/p>\n<p>But when the Ripleys arrived at 11pm on the first day, they were directed to another property that was shabby and had stains on the furniture and ceiling.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2026\/aug\/01\/bookingcom-money-back-refund\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2026\/aug\/01\/bookingcom-money-back-refund' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From melted electric sockets to shabby alternatives, readers tell of dealings with platform when things go wrong Jane Ripley* spent some time researching the best apartment to stay in for her family\u2019s trip to Batumi in Georgia, eventually settling on one with an \u201cexceptional\u201d rating on Booking.com. But when the Ripleys arrived at 11pm on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}